Roughness correction to the Casimir force: Beyond the proximity force approximation

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 924-930

  Maia Neto, P A ^a   Lambrecht, A ^b   Reynaud, S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 15944363784     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10433-9     Document Type: Article

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